I don't see what the issue is, an abstraction layer will add most of that functionality.
1. The Matcher API could be very useful for this one. 2. Code the client to send heartbeats back to the server, use cron to periodically handle any dead connections. 4. Abstraction will solve this -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.